Anne, great job! Not only did you challenge the rogue and hyperbole writing
of the NYT 'author' you approached it with grace and the respect to
meteoritics exemplary of the IMCA.
It would have been easy to write a scathing response with guns blazing black
(pun intended) but that would merely have achieved the goal the NYT seems
determined to illicit. It remains to be seen if they'll publish it.
Needless to say, the hyperbole is already out there (I've been approached by
some non-enlightened friends about my interest in meteorites, having read
the article, and questioning my intentions...yet I do have my facts straight
and point them to be on the aware for pending respectful responses from both
the scientific and collector community...i.e. your response now available
for me to reference.)
It still remains to be seen why their tact of slandering meteorite
collecting was pushed in the inciteful direction the author chose.
Richard Montgomery
----- Original Message -----
From: <impact...@aol.com>
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Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2011 2:32 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Rebuttal to NY Times article
Hello Everybody,
I hope you are enjoying your weekend.
I finally got a response from Dr Harvey, and I was able to finish my
response to the NewYork Times article. It has just been posted on the IMCA
website, here is the link:
_http://imca.cc/insights/2011/IMCA-Insights04.htm_
(http://imca.cc/insights/2011/IMCA-Insights04.htm)
It will show up on Meteorites-Times as soon as Paul finds a moment to post
it. And the Editor of Astronomy Magazine has accepted to post it on their
website, and later print it in the magazine, and I am very thankful for
that.
Feel free to link your websites/forums/blogs to it. Now that it is done I
would hope that a lot of people will read it (all the people who read the
NY
Times!!)
Anne M. Black
http://www.impactika.com/
impact...@aol.com
President, I.M.C.A. Inc.
http://www.imca.cc/
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